{"id":608851,"date":"2026-09-07T18:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/608851\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:46:56","slug":"grindr-to-pay-26m-to-settle-claims-it-allegedly-shared-users-hiv-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/608851\/","title":{"rendered":"Grindr to pay \u00a326m to settle claims it allegedly shared users&#8217; HIV status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two data analytics services, Apptimize and Localytics, were identified as third parties with access to the sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The claim said a potentially unlimited number of third parties used it to customise advertisements to Grindr&#8217;s users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It followed revelations in 2018 that Grindr had been sharing personal data, including the HIV status of its users, with the two data analytics providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grindr defended the practice at the time as in line with industry standards \u2013 but it said it then stopped sharing HIV data with those companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-59651703\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fined \u00a35.5m by Norway&#8217;s data protection watchdog<\/a> and, later in 2022, reprimanded by the UK Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office for its data practices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said in its filing on Friday that since 2020, it had &#8220;overhauled&#8221; its privacy practices to help meet the &#8220;unique needs of its community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Grindr is and remains a safe space for users, committed to transparency, user control, and responsible data practices,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two data analytics services, Apptimize and Localytics, were identified as third parties with access to the sensitive data.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-608851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}